“One of my friends, who had returned from Madrid, told me that beside the great pictures of Velázquez that are to be found there, all the others, the most sincere, the most magnificent, seem dead or academic.”
In the photograph: one of the two paintings by Velázquez in France, Saint Thomas, c. 1618-22.
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026. A rock-and-ice avalanche broke away that day from the northern slope of Langtang Lirung and turned into a debris flow,